Australia's coal exports rose 9.3 percent year on year to 137.7 million tons in the first seven months of 2005.
The increase is attributed to the improvement in
coking coal shipments, rising 7.3 million tons year on year to 73 million tons during the January-July period.
The growth was driven primarily by import demand in
India (10.6 million tons) and
Japan (26.2 million tons). In addition,
coking coal exports to
Europe rose 0.9 percent to 15.1 million tons over the same period.